An increase in light gives an increase in darkness. Sam Francis More Quotes by Sam Francis More Quotes From Sam Francis Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment. Sam Francis containment painting space Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark. Sam Francis color light dark The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer human. Sam Francis tragic inevitable artist Every real nation is a people of a common blood and descended from the same ancestors. A nation - from the Latin word meaning to be born - can have no other meaning. Sam Francis real latin blood What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable. Sam Francis something sight want life